- First, this Engadget video shows Thunderbolt in action on one of the new MacBook Pros, and does a good job showing the advantages of the faster bandwidth.
- CNet’s live coverage reveals that there are no plans to offer Thunderbolt PCIe cards. In fact, Intel says that you will need a new computer/motherboard to get Thunderbolt. That means Mac Pro owners won’t be able to add it on to their systems.
10:25 a.m. (Dong Ngo) : There won’t be TB PCIe cards it seems. You’ll need a new computer.
10:34 a.m. (Dong Ngo) : There won’t be add-in TB adapters, you’ll need a new computer/motherboard that supports TB.
- CrunchGear notes that while Apple doesn’t have an exclusive on Thunderbolt, they have a head start:
At their press release, held shortly after Apples update when live, Intel noted that the developer kit for the interface would be provided to other computer manufacturers this spring, and that they didnt expect OEMs to ship with Thunderbolt until 2012.
- Engadget reports that Thunderbolt will be both backwards and forwards-compatible when it gets the new optical cabling:
…the port you’ll find in new MacBook Pros and storage devices can actually take an optical cable when those are cost-effective enough to roll out, because Intel will eventually bake the optical transceivers into the cables themselves.
- Many have noted the new MacBook Pros have shorter battery life specs than last year’s MacBook Pros. TechCrunch notes that Apple has been using a different testing protocol to report battery life:
Apple has begun using a new method of battery life testing. And they feel its much more accurate in real world scenarios. Specifically they call this the Wireless Web protocol testing.
We won’t know until reviewers start testing them with identical benchmarks how much shorter the new MacBook Pro battery life actually is (if at all) as compared to the previous generation.
iFixit’s teardown of the new MacBook Pro shows the same battery capacity between last year’s and this year’s 15″ model. So any differences will be a product of the new CPU/GPUs.
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Verizon’s iPhone isn’t expected to be available to customers until February 10, but Engadget is reporting that some folks have a shipment delivery date of February 7. Originally posted at The Digital Home
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Verizon’s iPhone isn’t expected to be available to customers until February 10, but Engadget is reporting that some folks have a shipment delivery date of February 7. Originally posted at The Digital Home
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Apple will release the highly-anticipated white iPhone soon, co-founder Steve Wozniak told the Engadget Show, where he also confirmed rumors about manufacturing problems surrounding the phone’s delayed launch. As TheStreet reported in July, the reason for the delay is an issue with the paint that causes light to leak into the camera, distorting photos taken with the flash …
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Ever since the iPhone began eating into Playstation’s mobile gaming market share, it’s been expected that Sony would release a Playstation phone to fight back. Now we’re seeing the first glimpses of it, as the website Engadget has uncovered photos of a Playstation phone prototype. According to Engadget the device boasts a 1GHz Qualcomm chip with 512MB of RAM and runs on the Android 3.0 operating …
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Does Playstation’s New Smartphone Pose a Threat to the iPhone?
digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/apple/The_first_iPhone_4_review’; The iPhone 4 is no small thing to review. As most readers of Engadget are well aware, in the gadget world a new piece of Apple hardware is a major event, preceded by rumors, speculation, an over-the-top announcement, and finally days, weeks, or months of anticipation from an ever-widening fan base. The …
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A tipster has sent Engadget the first pic of an iPhone 4 replete with its cardboard box. The handsets are supposedly on hand at many Walmart stores. I have to say buying something like this from Walmart makes me nervous. The typical Walmart worker at my local store in the electronics area seems challenged simply opening the game case to make a sale. I shudder to think about them trying to …
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The iPhone 4 launch headache continues, with a second batch of supposedly cancelled handset orders. After reports last week that AT&T had sent out emails telling iPhone 4 buyers that their orders had been declined which the carrier explained as balancing out those who had accidentally double-ordered as the stock systems went into meltdown both Gizmodo and Engadget have been inundated by …
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iPhone 4 orders cancelled by AT&T and Apple for the second time?
The iPhone 4 launch headache continues, with a second batch of supposedly cancelled handset orders. After reports last week that AT&T had sent out emails telling iPhone 4 buyers that their orders had been declined which the carrier explained as balancing out those who had accidentally double-ordered as the stock systems went into meltdown both Gizmodo and Engadget have been inundated by …
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iPhone 4 orders cancelled by AT&T and Apple for the second time?